today , kids find that the amoun of homework they get keeps them from

playing sports , taking music lessons or just having fun after school. a recent
study by the university of michigan reports that over the past 16 years , the
amount of time the average 3 to 11 year old kid spends on homework has
increased by 50 percent . more and more parents are protesting against so
much homework

the question is whether schools are holding our children captives with
homework . said ken kiewra , professor of educational psychology . he realized
one day last year that his sixth grade son had given up music lessons , the
football team and his favourite hobby because he was loaded down with
homework . im home reading the paper and relaxing and his kid who left in the
morming before i did is doing two to three hours of work . remembered kiewra

in response , kiewra wrote an article for the lincoln newspaper. although

parents responded favourably to his article ,the school refused to change their
homework policies kiewra explained that from the chool's point of view
rescarch confirms that doing homework is better than not doing homework he
added that pressure for students to perfom well on standardized test has led
schools to pile on at home